Can Do!

The Story of the Seabees
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-1-55750-379-4
Verlag: Naval Institute Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

When William Bradford Huie, a reporter for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury, joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, he received a commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil Engineer Corps' Construction Battalions - the Seabees - and the following year published this account of their landing with the Marines at Guadalcanal and Wake Island, Sicily and Salerno. <br><br>As readable and entertaining today as it was some sixty years ago, it tells the story of these civilian engineers, carpenters, steam-shovel operators, plumbers, truck drivers, surveyors, and the like, who landed with the first waves of American assault troops, not only in the Pacific but also in Europe and Africa, bringing heavy equipment ashore to build roads, bridges, and airfields and repairing whatever they could. Often working under enemy fire, they incurred many casualties and won the deep respect of everyone who came into contact with them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huie, William Bradford

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>William Bradford ""Bill"" Huie</strong> (1910 – 1986) was an American journalist, editor, publisher, television interviewer, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy, for a time as aide to Vice Admiral Ben Moreell of the famous Seabees. While chronicling the wartime activity of the Seabees, Lieutenant Huie had special permission to continue his own writing projects, both fiction and nonfiction, dealing primarily with the war.